Sojourners And Subversives: Cataloguing the Treason Lobby

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Kevin Lamb has produced a guidebook to the enemies of patriotic immigration reform that is at once handy and comprehensive—The Open-Borders Network. How a Web of Ethnic Activists, Journalists, Corporations, Politicians, Lawyers, and Clergy Undermine U.S. Border Security and National Sovereignty.

You can read the whole thing for free here[PDF]. A hardcopy version is available for just $3.50 from the American Immigration Control Foundation here.

The organization declares: “We believe that gospel faith transforms our economics, gives us the power to share our bread and resources, welcomes all to the table of God`s provision, and provides a vision for social revolution.”

This calls for some reflection. Traditionally, “faith” has been understood as the Christian`s proper stance toward things which “surpass human understanding”. The believer is not expected to use “faith” to balance his checkbook or draw up a budget. Still less would it be applied to international economic and demographic problems.

Sojourners` advocacy of an “economics transformed by faith” amounts to relying on a repetition of the miracle of the loaves and fishes on a world scale.

Sojourners further declares: “We refuse to accept structures and assumptions that normalize poverty and segregate the world by class”.

Sojourners` founder Jim Wallis calls the U.S.“the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity in its totalitarian claims and designs”. In past years, his organization has rallied to “liberation theology” and supported communist regimes in Vietnam and Nicaragua.

It should be noted that Sojourners` talk of “sharing bread and resources” does not require them to practice the poverty of St. Francis. On the contrary, Lamb lists a dozen organizations busy sharing bread and resources with Sojourners. They include the MBNA Foundation and George Soros`s Open Society Institute.

Openly leftist Churches and denominations are not alone in promoting demographic transformation. The ostensibly “conservative”Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)—has resolved that Christ`s Great Commission (“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…”) requires us to petition federal and state government for the funding of refugee, immigrant and asylee programs.

“It is the will of the Lord”, proclaimed the 1995 LCMS convention, “that His people reach out to the immigrants that He has placed in their midst[my emphasis—R.D] and seek ways to serve them.”

American Christians see themselves as Good Samaritans, humbly carrying out the gospel`s injunctions to love their neighbors. But the NHCLC speaks of “political empowerment” and “social transformation”.

Does anyone seriously imagine that once Hispanics (or more accurately their self-appointed leaders) have gained power and transformed American society, they will suddenly turn around and start playing Good Samaritan to us?

Nevertheless, the NHCLC blames ordinary Americans, not itself, for “the current polarization of our society”. They published an open letter to President Bush in 2006 calling upon him to resolve our social tensions with a general amnesty—while complaining about discrimination, profiling, hostility and so forth.